Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There’s a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.
Bill Gates, Time Magazine, January 13, 1996
US computer software designer & industrialist (1955 – )
From: Quote Details: Bill Gates: Just in terms of… – The Quotations Page
The king is quoted as saying that “with God’s help we will meet our brethren from other religions, including those who believe in the Torah and in the Gospel, in order to find ways to defend humanity.”
Read the rest on CNN.com – Inside the Middle East – Blog
Islam is derived from the word ‘salaam’ which means peace. It is a religion of peace whose fundamentals teach its followers to maintain and promote peace throughout the world. Thus every Muslim should be a fundamentalist i.e. he should follow the fundamentals of the Religion of Peace: Islam.
This blog is done by one of the pastors in Kuwait! There was an article in the newspaper today about this Zakir who gave a talk apparently to 16,000 people about the religions. Form you own opinions of his lecture which is transcribed at the blog post in the link below.
He’s forty, she’s eleven. And they are a couple – the Afghan man Mohammed F. and the child Ghulam H. “We needed the moneyâ€, Ghulam’s parents said. Faiz claims he is going to send her to school. But the women of Damarda village in Afghanistan’s Ghor province know better: “Our men don’t want educated women.â€
From the International Herald Tribune
It is worth noting that the people in the forefront of the patenting of traditional Indian wisdom are Indians, mostly overseas. We know a business opportunity when we see one and have exported generations of gurus skilled in peddling enlightenment for a buck. But as Indians, they ought to know that the very idea of patenting knowledge is a gross violation of the tradition of yoga.
Yesterday while at Gulf Bank getting some cash from the ATM there was a lady begging outside the bank. The bank was closed as it was about 4:30 pm and the banks don’t open until 7:00 pm or so. So she was sitting there all covered in black. You couldn’t see her eyes, face or hands, all covered. And she was muttering something in Arabic.
Then this morning in the Kuwait Times the local events section had a story:
In Kuwait on visit visa, Blind and handicapped Pakistani Beggar held
A blind and crippled Pakistani begging outside a mosque took worshippers and police alike by surprise, when on seeing police the ‘sightless’ man took immediate flight in full sight. Police at first hesitated on chasing him as they thought he was just handicapped, but when worshippers told him that he was blind too, went after him. During interrogation he confessed that he came to Kuwait on a visit visa and pretended to be blind and a cripple to beg for money. Police filed a case and referred the man to the relevant authorities.